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elenchtic

elenchtic is the alternative form of elenctic.

Meaning of elenctic

Adjective

elenctic (comparative more elenctic, superlative most elenctic)

  1. Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rhetorical elenchus or cross-examination.
    • ‘What lady?’ he asked in the elenctic tones of Lewis Carroll's caterpillar.1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 101

Forms of elenchtic

comparativemore elenchtic
superlativemost elenchtic

Questions about elenchtic

What is elenchtic the alternative form of?
Elenchtic is the alternative form of elenctic.

Words near elenchtic in the dictionary

  1. elenchize
  2. elenchized
  3. elenchizes
  4. elenchizing
  5. elenchs
  6. elenchtic
  7. elenchtical
  8. elenchus
  9. elenctic
  10. elenctic method
  11. elenctical

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